June 29, 2012

Olivier Assayas and Sonic Youth

We conclude our week-long focus on Olivier Assayas and the recently published A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord and Olivier Assayas, edited by Kent Jones, with a look at the director’s collaborations with Sonic Youth. Sonic Youth were one...

June 28, 2012

Olivier Assayas, 1968, and The Situationists

In a Film Comment interview on the occasion of the release of his film Carlos, Olivier Assayas discussed some of the politics that shaped the film as well. In particular, Assayas discusses how the Guy Debord and the Situationists affected...

June 27, 2012

Geoffrey Heal: Planetary Economics

Geoffrey Heal, in his keynote address to the Rio+20 conference, discusses sustainability and how economics can help us get there.

June 27, 2012

The Films of Olivier Assayas

This week we are featuring a book by and about famed French director Olivier Assayas: A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord by Olivier Assayas and Olivier Assayas, edited by Kent Jones. Assayas’s films have been hailed by critics and...

June 26, 2012

New Book Tuesday: Military Masculinity in America and the Aesthetics of American Literature

Our weekly list of new titles now available: Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Façade of American Empire, 1898-2001 Aaron Belkin American Literature’s Aesthetic Dimensions Edited by Cindy Weinstein and Christopher Looby Dekalog 5: On Dogville Edited by...

June 26, 2012

Michael Marder: Do plants have their own form of consciousness?

Michael Marder addresses the controversy stirred up by his recent NYTimes articles and addresses how new advances in botany should impact our ethical thinking.

June 25, 2012

Jacqueline Stevens: Political Scientists Are Lousy Forecasters

Jacqueline Stevens argues that political scientists should not receive National Science Foundation grants, as political science is not a generally successful predictor of important events.

June 22, 2012

Patron-Driven Acquisitions: #AAUP12 and Beyond

The online conversation about PDA at #AAUP12.

June 22, 2012

Paul Courant Offers a Economist's View of the Google Book Settlement

We conclude our week-long focus on The Economists’ Voice 2.0: The Financial Crisis, Health Care Reform, and More, edited by Joseph Stiglitz and Aaron Edlin with an essay Paul N. Courant, an economist and dean of libraries at the University...

June 22, 2012

University Press Roundup

Our weekly roundup of the best articles from the academic publishing blogosphere.

June 21, 2012

A View on the Failures of New Classical Economics from The Economists' Voice 2.0

After the financial crisis of 2008, economists debated the applicability of New Classical Economics. Did this macroeconomic theory with its faith in markets fail to predict or understand looming economic problems? Paul Krugman criticized New Classical Economics while University of...

June 20, 2012

Richard Posner on Financial Regulatory Reform and the Politics of Denial

Richard Posner’s essay “Financial Regulatory Reform: The Politics of Denial,” included in The Economists’ Voice 2.0: The Economists’ Voice 2.0: The Financial Crisis, Health Care Reform, and More, explores the question of whether, as is the case, those officials complicit...